E-learning research, theory, evaluation, methods
- Research
- See the Journals page for some e-learning related journals, as well as the organizations & conferences page
- Meta-analyses - as I mentioned on the first day and posted on the potential misconceptions about learning and technology page, meta-analyses are actually finding better learning results from online courses than face to face:
- http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf
- summary of above: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/29/online
- http://jolt.merlot.org/vol6no2/shachar_0610.htm
- http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf
- Research Reviews
- http://www.elearning-reviews.org/
- Researching Web 2.0 tools, or, the effects of web 2.0 tools on educational research & communication:
- Christine Greenhow
- http://www.cgreenhow.org/research/
- http://edr.sagepub.com/content/38/4/246.abstract
- learner participation & creativity
- online identity formation
- http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122530871/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
- http://www.thebrokeronline.eu/en/Special-Reports/Special-report-Social-academia/Rewriting-research
- Christine Greenhow
- Researching virtual worlds
- Lisa Dawley
- http://www.igi-global.com/Files/Ancillary/jgcms%20preface%202%281%29.pdf
- http://edtech.boisestate.edu/ldawley/SNKC_pdf.pdf
- Course - http://onlineeducators.blogspot.com/2009/06/research-methods-in-virtual-worlds.html
- http://edtechisland.wetpaint.com/
- Lisa Dawley
- Research on virtual schools
- http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/607/1182
- http://www.inacol.org/research/docs/NACOL_ResearchEffectiveness-lr.pdf
- Example studies
- http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/trends-in-higher-education/twitter-in-the-classroom-studies-find-increased-student-engagement/
- http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/files/theinitiative/publications/jime-2008-14.pdf
- the course: http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/forstudents/freecourses/statistics
- Tools for research - http://tools4research.wikispaces.com/
- Theory & Frameworks
- List of learning theories: http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Category:Learning_theories
- Grainne Conole's taxonomy of learning activities, tools, and theories:
- http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/DialogPlus_Toolkit#Tasks
- http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/DialogPlus_Toolkit#The_learning_taxonomy_in_one_table
- visualized: http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Conole_and_Fill_learning_taxonomy
- Activity theory
- http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a922239279~db=all~jumptype=rss
- Yrjö Engeström's work - http://www.edu.helsinki.fi/activity/people/engestro/
- Bonnie Nardi's work - http://www.darrouzet-nardi.net/bonnie/
- Laurillard's conversational framework - http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Laurillard_conversational_framework
- Methods
- List of research methodologies: http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Category:Research_methodologies
- Grainne Conole
- Theory And Methodology In Networked Learning http://www.slideshare.net/grainne/theory-and-methodology-in-networked-learning
- Presentation: e-learning research methodological issues: http://www.slideshare.net/grainne/elearning-research-methodological-issues
- Other presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/grainne/presentations
- Surveys
- Using surveymonkey, google forms, etc.
- Surveys of engagement/motivation, self-efficacy, teacher ratings, self-assessment, etc.
- Content analysis of discussion forums, etc.
- http://institute.nsta.org/scipack_research/content_analysis_online_discussion_forums_etrd.pdf
- http://www.springerlink.com/content/aj8u085378706178/
- More on content analysis - http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/research/content/
- Social network analysis
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network
- http://www.orgnet.com/sna.html
- Eye tracking & click maps
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/tag/Omniture
- General social science research methods: http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/ including analyzing concept maps - http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/mapping/mapping.htm
- E-Learning Evaluation
- 2 courses
- http://school.coe.uga.edu/course/view.php?id=6
- http://wikieducator.org/Evaluation_of_eLearning_for_Best_Practice
- Other evaluation resources - http://it.coe.uga.edu/~treeves/edit8350/resources.html
- Evaluating multimedia - http://www.uiowa.edu/~c07w180e/current/downloads1.htm
- Evaluation plans - http://oerl.sri.com/ccli_resources.html
- Evaluation checklist - http://oerl.sri.com/downloads/CCLI_WebinarSuggestedEvalPlanChecklist.pdf
- The classic Kirkpatrick model of evaluation - http://www.e-learningguru.com/articles/art2_8.htm
- 2 courses
- Course Redesign
- http://www.thencat.org/R2R/R2R_Planning_Resources.htm
- This report is a good summary and overall of the work by NCAT: http://www.educationsector.org/usr_doc/NCAT-Report_RELEASE.pdf